Ending the use of antimicrobial growth promoters is making a difference. Wegener HC. ASM News. 2003;69:443. The authors report the highly successful campaign to eliminate antimicrobials for growth ...
Researchers, concerned about the use of antibiotics in animal production, have found that antimicrobial growth promoters administered to swine can alter the kind of bacteria present in the animal's ...
FoodNavigator: WOAH: Use of antimicrobials for growth promotion must be completely phased out globally
The World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) is calling on its member states to restrict the use of antimicrobials solely to veterinary medical use and to achieve a total ban on their use as growth ...
WOAH: Use of antimicrobials for growth promotion must be completely phased out globally
National Geographic news: Growth Promoters for Farm Animals: What If They Just Don’t Work?
The practice of giving food animals small doses of antibiotics has been around since at least the 1940s. In the earliest days they were used, these so-called growth promoters conferred huge benefits, ...
Science Daily: Probiotic feed additive boosts growth, health in poultry in place of antibiotics
The growing need for antibiotic-free products has challenged producers to decrease or completely stop using antimicrobials as feed supplements in the diet of broiler chickens to improve feed ...
Probiotic feed additive boosts growth, health in poultry in place of antibiotics
Antimicrobial use in animals has decreased in 2014 due mainly to decreased consumption in the pig production. In general very little of the critically important antimicrobials – which are used to ...